ABSTRACT
Various fashionable terms have been adopted and even newly coined to indicate the interplay of motifs, themes, traditions, exchanges, borrowings, and the like that marked the relationships between Italy and England in the early modern period. From the traditional idea of a given source or analogue, a written text directly affecting the author in one way or another, we have moved on to a larger process of cultural influence, mostly operating unconsciously, which has implied the existence of a ‘deep’, ultimate source, the archetypal or seminal legacy reached indirectly via the mediation of a countless number of subsequent models.
